I’m running Plasma with sddm and after updating when login, nothing happens. It still at the login screen. I can login to a virtual terminal and access the command line but posting logs is going to be tricky. I’ll probably have to use a live system and mount my filesystems.
I don’t think there was an update to sddm.
I don’t know what logs to post.
I’m wonder if I wait a couple days and update again if the problem will be fixed.
I’m making a silly guess but it proves right so many times…bet there was a kernel update and your Nvidia (making assumptions) is now broken. 50% of all issues seem to be NoVidia.
If so, it probably WILL be resolved in a couple of days.
I don’t have Nvidia.
I’m running an A8-6410 APU with AMD R5 Radeon Graphics.
It’s one of these weird little HP computers where they mounted I think it’s a mini ITX in a tower case. I got off eBay several years ago. It wasn’t what was advertised but I ended up keeping it. I put an SSD in it and USB 3 to gigabit ethernet adapter because it only had “fast” Ethernet. And I maxed out the ram to 16 GB.
It helps if you give the system config (inxi) when you post, then we’re not playing guessing games quite as much.
Weird, I run AMD graphics and everything is fine here with my Plasma.
rick:~/ $ inxi
CPU: quad core AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (-MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1057/1000/2000 MHz Kernel: 6.11.3-arch1-1 x86_64 Up: 1h 55m Mem: 871.2 MiB/15.3
GiB (5.6%) Storage: 931.51 GiB (82.8% used) Procs: 182 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.36
rick:~/ $
Then you may have messed up some login-related files in your $HOME folder.
I would first test with a new user, to see if it is also blocked from login.
Example:
sudo useradd -m archie
sudo passwd archie
Then switch to SDDM TTY and try to login to the new user account.
As for logs, start from /var/log/pacman.log, and then inspect journal for the SDDM error messages.
Actually after I created the new user I found out something.
I can login to my original user if my mouse cursor is on my second monitor.
So I now my system is usable, but still acting a little strange.
I should be able to login no matter where my mouse cursor is.
That’s a first for me. Too odd to believe it 
.
If you want to fix it, or investigate, you have to do some work.
For example:
less /var/log/pacman.log
Hit key End
Type /pacman and hit key Enter
Hit key N (capital N, with Shift+n), until you find a line which runs pacman -Syu, or equivalent (from a helper utility like yay).
You may copy the lines from there to the end of the log file, and post it (here, or in a paste-bin service). Or post the complete file, if you don’t mind.
journalctl -b -u sddm
journalctl -b -p3
Get sddm log file
For SDDM in X11: $HOME/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
For SDDM in Wayland: $HOME/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log
Get current sddm configuration (other than system/sddm default)
for Xconf in /etc/sddm.conf.d/*.conf /etc/sddm.conf ; do echo -e "\n### $Xconf" ; sudo cat "$Xconf"; done
inxi -Faz
I had this exact same issue and was able to login from my second monitor, but not my first. It is certainly not unique to your config.
I guess I need to use paste bin or something.
By the way according to "About Systerm in Systemsettings I using Wayland, but
.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log is empty
.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log was last written to on July 24 and contains
kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
startkde: Starting up…
startkde: Shutting down…
startkde: Done.
I could probably post most of these here if I do 1 log pre message.
rick:~/ $ journalctl -b -u sddm
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Initializing…
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Starting…
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Logind interface found
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Adding new display…
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Xauthority path: “/run/sddm/xauth_EWKymg”
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Using VT 2
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Display server starting…
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Writing cookie to “/run/sddm/xauth_EWKymg”
Oct 15 13:15:27 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_EWKymg -noreset -displayfd 16
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Setting default cursor
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Running display setup script “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup”
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Display server started.
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Socket server starting…
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Socket server started.
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Loading theme configuration from “/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf”
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Greeter starting…
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: [PAM] Starting…
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: [PAM] returning.
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=963) by (uid=0)
Oct 15 13:15:29 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: pam_systemd(sddm-greeter:session): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-723) opened.
Oct 15 13:15:30 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: Writing cookie to “/tmp/xauth_ihzqeT”
Oct 15 13:15:30 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[723]: Starting X11 session: “” “/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-IGZTRo --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze”
Oct 15 13:15:30 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Greeter session started successfully
Oct 15 13:15:30 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Message received from greeter: Login
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Reading from “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop”
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Session “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop” selected, command: "/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland>
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: [PAM] Starting…
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: pam_systemd_home(sddm:auth): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-home-790) opened.
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: [PAM] Preparing to converse…
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: [PAM] returning.
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Authentication for user “rick” successful
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user rick(uid=1000) by rick(uid=0)
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: pam_systemd(sddm:session): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-790) opened.
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HELPER_SUCCESS
Oct 15 13:15:58 Pavillion550 sddm[686]: Session started true
lines 1-46/46 (END)
rick:~/ $ journalctl -b -p3
Oct 15 13:15:09 Pavillion550 kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xacc04000-0xacc04fff flags 0x200] vs acc0>
Oct 15 13:15:09 Pavillion550 kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: error -EBUSY: can’t request region for resource [mem 0xacc04000-0xacc04fff]
Oct 15 13:15:09 Pavillion550 kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: probe with driver tpm_crb failed with error -16
Oct 15 13:15:15 Pavillion550 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
Oct 15 13:15:15 Pavillion550 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: ‘brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-216c.hcd’
Oct 15 13:15:15 Pavillion550 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: ‘brcm/BCM-0a5c-216c.hcd’
Oct 15 13:15:18 Pavillion550 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x1003 failed: -110
Oct 15 13:15:18 Pavillion550 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x1003 tx timeout
Oct 15 13:15:30 Pavillion550 dbus-broker-launch[743]: Ignoring duplicate name ‘org.freedesktop.FileManager1’ in service file '/usr/share//dbus-1/services/org.kde.dolphin.FileManager1.s>
Oct 15 13:15:57 Pavillion550 sddm-helper[790]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Oct 15 13:15:58 Pavillion550 dbus-broker-launch[817]: Ignoring duplicate name ‘org.freedesktop.FileManager1’ in service file '/usr/share//dbus-1/services/org.kde.dolphin.FileManager1.s>
Oct 15 13:16:09 Pavillion550 kernel: i2c i2c-10: sendbytes: NAK bailout.
Oct 15 13:16:09 Pavillion550 org_kde_powerdevil[1194]: busno=9, sleep-multiplier = 2.00. Testing for supported feature 0x10 returned Error_Info[EIO in ddc_write_read_with_retry, cause>
Oct 15 13:16:09 Pavillion550 kernel: i2c i2c-9: sendbytes: NAK bailout.
Oct 15 13:16:31 Pavillion550 kwin_wayland[849]: kwin_scene_opengl: Invalid framebuffer status: “GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_ATTACHMENT”
Oct 15 13:16:42 Pavillion550 akonadi_control[2271]: org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: “/usr/bin/akonadi_notes_agent” crashed too often and will not be restarted!
Oct 15 13:16:44 Pavillion550 akonadiserver[2630]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier ‘akonadi_maildir_resource_0’, error message: ‘’
lines 1-17/17 (END)
rick:~/ $ for Xconf in /etc/sddm.conf.d/*.conf /etc/sddm.conf ; do echo -e “\n### $Xconf” ; sudo cat “$Xconf”; done
[sudo] password for rick:
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=
[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot
[Theme]
Current=breeze
[Users]
MaximumUid=60513
MinimumUid=1000
[Autologin]
Session=plasma
rick:~/ $
rick:~/ $ inxi -Faz
System:
Kernel: 6.11.3-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=8425348f-34b6-4a91-b2fe-306fe1f6b9ae rw rootflags=subvol=@
nowatchdog nvme_load=YES loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.0 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.7.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: 550-a114 v: N/A
serial: Chassis: type: 3 serial:
Mobo: HP model: 2B29 v: 1.01 serial:
part-nu: M9Z89AA#ABA uuid: UEFI: AMI v: A0.07
date: 08/04/2015
CPU:
Info: model: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Puma level: v2 built: 2014-15 process: GF 28nm family: 0x16 (22)
model-id: 0x30 (48) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x7030105
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 4 smt: cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 1x2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 1000/2000 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000 3: 1000
4: 1000 bogomips: 15979
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling;
PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu
arch: GCN-2 code: Sea Islands process: GF/TSMC 16-28nm built: 2013-17
ports: active: DVI-D-1,VGA-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:01.0
chip-ID: 1002:9851 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon d-rect: 3840x2280
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 pos: top-right res: 1920x1200 size: N/A modes: N/A
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.4-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: KABINI (radeonsi LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 2.50
6.11.3-arch1-1) device-ID: 1002:9851 memory: 250 MiB unified: no
display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
chip-ID: 1002:9840 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.11.3-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: dormant mac:
Device-3: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet driver: ax88179_178a type: USB
rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 4-2:3
chip-ID: 0b95:1790 class-ID: ff00 serial:
IF: enp0s16u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Info: services: NetworkManager, sshd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device driver: btusb v: 0.8
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 2-1.3:3
chip-ID: 0a5c:216c class-ID: fe01 serial:
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 771.71 GiB (82.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 033 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 99.14 GiB size: 99.14 GiB (100.00%)
used: 41.22 GiB (41.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1.95 GiB size: 1.95 GiB (99.80%)
used: 584 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-3: /home raw-size: 822.51 GiB size: 822.51 GiB (100.00%)
used: 730.49 GiB (88.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 99.14 GiB size: 99.14 GiB (100.00%)
used: 41.22 GiB (41.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 74.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 76.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.3 GiB used: 3.98 GiB (26.0%)
Processes: 286 Power: uptime: 6h 0m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.11 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1792 libs: 354 tools: gnome-software,yay
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36
rick:~/ $
I decided to run inxi -Faz with as root.
rick:~/ $ sudo inxi -Faz
System:
Kernel: 6.11.3-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=8425348f-34b6-4a91-b2fe-306fe1f6b9ae rw rootflags=subvol=@
nowatchdog nvme_load=YES loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.0 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: 550-a114 v: N/A serial: Chassis:
type: 3 serial: N/A
Mobo: HP model: 2B29 v: 1.01 serial: N/A part-nu: M9Z89AA#ABA
uuid: f1189433-7e54-dc20-840d-071df74592e0 UEFI: AMI v: A0.07
date: 08/04/2015
CPU:
Info: model: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Puma level: v2 built: 2014-15 process: GF 28nm family: 0x16 (22)
model-id: 0x30 (48) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x7030105
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 4 smt: cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 1x2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 1000/2000 boost: enabled
base/boost: 2000/2000 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil
volts: 0.1 V ext-clock: 200 MHz cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000 3: 1000 4: 1000
bogomips: 15979
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling;
PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu
arch: GCN-2 code: Sea Islands process: GF/TSMC 16-28nm built: 2013-17
ports: active: DVI-D-1,VGA-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:01.0
chip-ID: 1002:9851 class-ID: 0300
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x318mm (40.00x12.52")
s-diag: 1065mm (41.91")
Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 pos: top-right model: Asus PA248 serial:
built: 2016 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 89 gamma: 1.2
size: 546x352mm (21.5x13.86") diag: 650mm (25.6") ratio: 16:10 modes:
max: 1920x1200 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: primary,bottom-l model: VG245 serial:
built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2
size: 531x299mm (20.91x11.77") diag: 609mm (24") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.4-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: KABINI (radeonsi LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 2.50
6.11.3-arch1-1) device-ID: 1002:9851 memory: 250 MiB unified: no
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
chip-ID: 1002:9840 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.11.3-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: dormant mac:
Device-3: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet driver: ax88179_178a type: USB
rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 4-2:3
chip-ID: 0b95:1790 class-ID: ff00 serial:
IF: enp0s16u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Info: services: NetworkManager, sshd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device driver: btusb v: 0.8
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 2-1.3:3
chip-ID: 0a5c:216c class-ID: fe01 serial:
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 771.71 GiB (82.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1
family: Micron Client SSDs size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.3 speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial:
fw-rev: 033 temp: 27 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 241d 8h cycles: 445
written: 61.08 TiB Old-Age: UDMA CRC errors: 61
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 99.14 GiB size: 99.14 GiB (100.00%)
used: 41.22 GiB (41.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda1
maj-min: 8:1
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1.95 GiB size: 1.95 GiB (99.80%)
used: 584 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-3: /home raw-size: 822.51 GiB size: 822.51 GiB (100.00%)
used: 730.49 GiB (88.8%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda3
maj-min: 8:3
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 99.14 GiB size: 99.14 GiB (100.00%)
used: 41.22 GiB (41.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda1
maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 74.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 75.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.3 GiB used: 4 GiB (26.1%)
Processes: 290 Power: uptime: 6h 2m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.11 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1792 libs: 354 tools: gnome-software,yay
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Sudo (sudo)
v: 1.9.16 default: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36
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Can confirm this behaviour too, since yesterday I think (I update every day). This behaviour was the “default”, no need to create another user. On a laptop with AMD + Nvidia
Possibly related posts:
possible kde bug tracking: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494804
inxi -Fxxc0z
journalctl --no-hostname -k -b -0
journalctl --no-hostname -b -u sddm
journalctl --no-hostname -b -p3
wayland-session.log is empty
### /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=
[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot
[Theme]
Current=breeze
[Users]
MaximumUid=60513
MinimumUid=1000
### /etc/sddm.conf
[Autologin]
Session=plasma
from the pacman logs I can see that from the 14th qt got updated from 6.6 to 6.7 and then 6.8. On the 10th kde went from 6.1 to 6.2
edit:
kde 6.2.1 is availabe now, updating and will report if anything changes
edit 2:
the update did not fix it. I noticed the color of the reboot/logout etc icons in the second screen, the one with the non working login, is different from the main one, it’s greyish and looks a bit like the disabled state of buttons
I tried upgrading and now I get a login screen and I try to login and the screen turns black.
I tried downgraded sddm-kcm (6.2.1-1 → 6.2.0-1)
no help
I downgraded sddm-kcm (6.2.0-1 → 6.1.5-1)
no help
I’m not sure what to try next but I’ll probably try something.
As tried in the other forum thread I uninstalled eos-plasma-sddm-config with
sudo pacman -R eos-plasma-sddm-config
and it fixed the issue. The log in screen theme gets removed and the old screen works fine, also the theme on the desktop does not change. Reinstalling the package triggers it again
also now there’s another update available ;D
:: 5 packages to upgrade/install.
5 core/archlinux-keyring 20240709-2 -> 20241015-1
4 extra/nvidia-dkms 560.35.03-14 -> 560.35.03-16
3 extra/nvidia-utils 560.35.03-14 -> 560.35.03-16
2 extra/pv 1.8.14-1 -> 1.9.0-1
1 extra/qt6-webengine 6.8.0-1 -> 6.8.0-3
I remove eos-plasma-sddm-config and now I can login.
By the way I don’t have any Nvidia.
Issue is not NVIDIA related, since eos-plasma-sddm-config is just 2 config files I checked the repo and there’s an old pull request which fixes it
If someone does not want to uninstall eos-plasma-sddm-config it’s possible to edit the file at
/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf
and paste the linked configuration. Please note that I only tried on my pc (but it shouldn’t be a big issue since you can just remove this file or uninstall eos-plasma-sddm-config)
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=
[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot
DisplayServer=wayland
GreeterEnvironment=QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION=layer-shell
#GreeterEnvironment=QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION=xdg-shell
[Theme]
Current=breeze
[Users]
MaximumUid=60513
MinimumUid=1000
[Wayland]
Enable=true
SessionDir=/usr/share/wayland-sessions
CompositorCommand=/usr/bin/kwin_wayland --no-lockscreen
edit: instead of changing this file it should be possible to add another .conf file in the same folder with just the overrides/new values.
This is a reference file from sddm: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/sddm-wayland-session/plasma-wayland.conf
This is the related section from the arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Wayland